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The Mount Pleasant Library at 1600 Lamont Street, NW in Washington, DC is a branch of the District of Columbia Public Library System that opened in May 1925, [1] and is the third oldest public library building still in use in Washington.
Carnegie Library of Washington D.C. formerly served as the DCPL's Central Public Library. In October 1895, in preparation of the library's establishment, founders rented two rooms in the McLean Building at 1517 H Street NW to begin acquiring and processing materials to be used in what would then be called the Washington City Free Library.
In 1727, Charles Calvert, 5th Baron Baltimore, then governor of the Province of Maryland, awarded a land grant for present-day Mount Pleasant to James Holmead. This estate, later named "Pleasant Plains", included the territory of present-day neighborhoods of Adams Morgan, Columbia Heights, Meridian Hill, and Pleasant Plains (which only covers a portion of the original estate of the same name).
Mount Pleasant: 1600 Lamont St., NW: Designed by noted library architect Edward Lippincott Tilton, this is the last library built with Carnegie funds in Washington, D.C., having opened on May 15, 1925. [2] 3: Southeast: 403 7th St., SE
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Ingleside is a historic house in the Mount Pleasant neighborhood of Washington, D.C. The house was designed by architect Thomas U. Walter and completed around 1850. From 1896 to 1904, it was owned by Thomas C. Noyes, an editor, part-owner, and publisher of the Washington Evening Star and owner of the Washington Senators baseball team.